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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 20, 2013 Page 19 At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Paschke advised that, yes, he would be willing to walk the site with area residents, as long s he understood the purpose in doing so. Councilmember McGehee opined that the purpose would be to hear resident thoughts about those things that had been and continue to be their immediate environment and that of the whole community as valuable and signifi- cant. Mr. Paschke referred to the City's existing tree preservation ordinance al- lowing him to protect those adjacent properties as much as possible from the de- velopment site. Mr. Paschke advised that, going into the Josephine Woods project, there were trees that were known to be at risk; and further advised that staff and the develop- er intended to follow-up on those at-risk trees, in accordance with the developer's tree preservation plan if they died. Regarding involvement of the City Forester to review and approve the tree preservation plan, Mr. Paschke advised that those services had not been utilized to-date for determining which trees should be removed or those that shouldn't be removed. Mayor Roe suggested that a future consideration for revising the City Tree Preservation Policy, at a later date, may be a requirement to have that expertise available, and for consideration of the benefits of such expertise. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Fair responded to questions about storm water area ownership and maintenance. Mr. Fair advised that ongoing maintenance of landscaping and Outlots A and B would be based on a maintenance agreement negotiated between the City and the developer. Mr. Fair advised that, regarding Lot 6, the City of Roseville's staff had asked the developer to create the Outlots versus a stormwater easement across those lots. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Schwartz confirmed that, as part of a develop- ment agreement, maintenance of the storm water ponds would be addressed by the City at a later date; and costs of pond maintenance, as with a number of exist- ing storm water ponds throughout and being maintained by the City, would be paid through the storm water fees paid by all Roseville residents. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Fair advised that the soil boring data from eight borings was currently being processed by their civil engineering contractor, and would be provided to City staff upon its completion. Regarding the potential for storm water running off this property onto neighbor- ing properties, Mayor Roe noted that requirements of the City and the Watershed District did not allow new developments to have any additional runoff onto adja- cent properties, and final approvals for any project would need to meet those re-